Just an update on the Father-in-law.
He had emergency brain surgery last night and things came out as good as possible. The tumor is most likely cancer but tests are still being done. He is still with us and should be for a while. The biggest thing is he will be here to see his grand child and hopefuly a couple of birthdays. Thanks to all for the e-mails and for everyone being so great, thank you so very much!!!!!!

Also…May is when the now famous baby e-man will be born. When we get back from Atlanta we will have a contest on “guess the b-day and time”. The prize will be something special!!!!

The TEAM HSB shirts are in process!!!!!yeah!! I should have pics of the prototypes next week. I think everyone will be pleased!!

CAPTIAN CAPSICUM will be making another appearance shortly so stay tuned!!!!!

the eman’s

Well, here it is my friends, my first official review. This is so exciting!!!! After spending many hours on HSB and meeting several new friends here, I happened to come across a man by the name of Brian from Loco Luna Gourmet Foods. We struck up a conversation and I heard a lot about this new ‘extreme’ he had just put out. I got him to send me a couple of bottles that he so kindly signed for me. Around that same time, I received a package from Nick with the Loco Luna Extreme for me to review. I was excited yet kind of reserved to try this because of a new friendship. So, opening the bottle and taking a quick whiff I knew I was in for a special treat!!!

Before I ever read a label I will give a sauce a good sniff to see what I am in for and then a taste to see if I can pick out the flavors and check my senses with the label.

SMELL:
The first smell that jumps out to me is the Worcestershire sauce, followed by a slight, sweet, peppery smell. This sauce screams EAT ME as soon as you open the cap. It definitely excited the nostrils and got the mouth watering for a taste.

INGREDIENTS:
Habanero and other chili peppers, garlic, Worcestershire sauce, cane juice, lime juice, salt, vinegar, tomato sauce, capsicum extract and other herbs and spices

CONSISTENCY:
Pours out good, a little runny but has a lot of chunks of the good stuff so it looks quite good. Easily covers the food and mops up well with a chicken finger.

FIRST TASTE:
Dear Brian, thank you for developing this nectar of the gods. This is totally my kind of sauce. The Worcestershire definitely shines here with a gradual warm up of heat and flavors. The next thing that shines through is an ever so slight sweet flavor and then the spices. I took several bare tastes of the sauce with no food just to enjoy the flavors I was experiencing.

ON FOOD:
After finishing off my first plateful of chicken fingers I HAD to get some more. I could not get enough of this sauce. In about 2 min I had about 1/2 the bottle gone. Loco Luna Extreme was also excellent on cheese as well as some left over hamburger meat!!!

IN CONCLUSION:
ME Want More!!! After this goes to press, I will be ordering up the whole series of this wonderful sauce. Maybe for some of the extreme chili heads it will probably not have enough heat but I think I just tested one of my new top 5 sauces!! Nice job!

OVERALL RATING: 9.5 out of 10

Additional Loco Luna Hot Sauce Reviews:
- Audio Review: The Lava Suite
- New Favorite Hot Sauce

So close, yet so far away…

Well, I finally got my bottle – sort of (Original Placeholder)

So after last nights massacre of emans emotions the wife and I set out on a hot sauce buying spree. We made a trip up to an incredible store in St.Charles MO called FIGUERO’s and met John the owner. WOW, not only an incredibly nice man but what a hot sauce connoisseur!!! We talked a while and exchanges war stories and he agreed to doing an interview this week. So,not giving away too many details, keep a look out for this hot sauce legend!
Oh, by the way, this is what we got.
Feeling much better now
eman

Jim from Mild to Wild almost gave eman a heart attack when he mentioned that he had the last signed Beyond Death bottle. In less then 1 minute after Jim mentioned the bottle, eman was on the HSB wanting more information. Poor Jim didn’t realize who he was dealing with here on the HSB, the hot sauce fans here are pretty rabid about our collections.

For those of you that don’t know who eman is, he’s our newest reviewer, goes by the name of Captain Capsicum and has the largest collection of Blair’s items I’ve ever seen. eman now has a placeholder for a bottle of Beyond Death – so if you have one, give his heart a break and help a fellow chilehead out.

Because of the incredibly mild weather last week I got to make one of my favorite and very simple grilled sensations.

Supplies:
1+ slabs of spare ribs (or whatever amount you want)
At least 2 bottles of Raspberry Chipotle Sauce (you can even make your own)
Shaker of your favorite meat seasoning

Step 1
Go ahead and clean off whatever fat is on the ribs and wash them thoroughly.

Step 2
Put the slabs of ribs in a large pot that will easily accommodate them and fill with enough water to cover the ribs. Add a little extra for evaporation and add A LOT of the seasoning salt to the water. You don’t need to put it on the meat itself; it will get plenty from the water. Put the pot on the stove and boil on high for about 2.5 hours

Step 3
With a hot grill, lay the ribs out flat and smother with Raspberry Chipotle sauce. Use a brush to rub the sauce in. Now you don’t need to cook the ribs very long because they have already been cooked. What you are trying to do is give them a grilled taste and fire the sauce into the ribs. Keep flipping the ribs and adding sauce every ?? minutes. Be sure to save some sauce to use for dipping later. I usually use about one and a half bottles while grilling and I save about half of a bottle for dipping.

Step 4
Dig in!